The Magnificent Yankee (1950)

Ian Wolfe: Adams

Quotes 

• Adams : Holmes. What is it that always makes you so infirmly unworried about everything?

  Oliver Wendell Holmes : Listen Adams. When I was mustered out of the civil war, people told me the country was going to the dogs. When I went on the bench in Massachusetts twenty years ago, people told me the country was going to the dogs. I don't think we're out of the trenches yet, but we're a long way from the dogs.

  Adams : Perhaps. But I hear them barking just the same.